“I touch the future. I teach.”
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NASA was going to pick a public school teacher to go into space, observe and make a journal about the space flight, and I am a teacher who always dreamed of going up into space.
If I can get some student interested in science, if I can show members of the general public what's going on up there in the space program, then my job's been done.
The president felt that it was important to send an ordinary citizen to experience the excitement of space travel as a representative for all Americans.
We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.